LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Will Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams “Get Lucky” or will Bruno Mars be “Locked Out of Heaven”? Some observers are expecting Imagine Dragons to be “Radioactive” and before the night is over there could be more than a few blurred lines at the STAPLES Center.
Talking, of course, about the 56th annual GRAMMY Awards airing Sunday night (8 p.m.) on CBS.
Music experts think it’s also going to be a big night for Lorde and country crooner Kacey Musgraves. But Grammy always has major surprises up her sleeve.
Here are the nominations in the major categories. Winners in BOLD
Record of the Year
• Get Lucky, Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams
• Radioactive, Imagine Dragons
• Royals, Lorde
• Locked Out of Heaven, Bruno Mars
• Blurred Lines, Robin Thicke, T.I. & Pharrell Williams
Album of the Year
• The Blessed Unrest, Sara Bareilles
• Random Access Memories, Daft Punk
• good kid, m.A.A.d. city, Kendrick Lamar
• The Heist, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• Red, Taylor Swift
Song of the Year
• Just Give Me a Reason, Pink & Nate Ruess
• Locked Out of Heaven, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine & Bruno Mars
• Roar, Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry & Henry Walter
• Royals, Lorde & Joel Little
• Same Love, Ben Haggerty, Mary Lambert & Ryan Lewis
Best New Artist
• James Blake
• Kendrick Lamar
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• Kacey Musgraves
• Ed Sheeran
Best Solo Performance
• Brave, Sara Bareilles
• Royals, Lorde
• When I Was Your Man, Bruno Mars
• Roar, Katy Perry
• Mirrors, Justin Timberlake
Best Pop Vocal Album
• Paradise, Lana Del Rey
• Pure Heroine, Lorde
• Unorthodox Jukebox, Bruno Mars
• Blurred Lines, Robin Thicke
• The 20/20 Experience, Justin Timberlake
Best Alternative Music Album
• The Worse Things Get…, Neko Case
• Trouble Will Find Me, The National
• Hesitation Marks, Nine Inch Nails
• Lonerism, Tame Impala
• Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend
Best Rap Album
• Nothing Was the Same, Drake
• Magna Carta Holy Grail, Jay-Z
• good kid, m.A.A.d. city, Kendrick Lamar
• The Heist, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• Yeezus, Kanye West
Best Country Album
• Night Train, Jason Aldean
• Two Lanes of Freedom, Tim McGraw
• Same Trailer Different Park, Kacey Musgraves
• Based on a True Story, Blake Shelton
• Red, Taylor Swift
For a complete list of all nominees, click here.
The list of performers appearing on stage reads like a Who’s Who in music today and yesteryear. Madonna was recently added to the bill. Not that there was any shortage of major star wattage.
Nine Inch Nails, Dave Grohl, Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham, Nile Rodgers, Pink, Katy Perry, Sara Bareilles, Carole King, Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams, Stevie Wonder, John Legend, Keith Urban, Lorde, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Robin Thicke, Chicago, Hunter Hayes and Taylor Swift are all slated to perform.
Kris Kristofferson is also being honored with a lifetime achievement award and will perform with friends Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and Blake Shelton. Shelton’s wife, Miranda Lambert, and Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day are teaming up to honor Phil Everly, who died earlier this month.
